The Winnipeg Jets were a professional ice hockey team based in Winnipeg. They began play in the World Hockey Association (WHA) in 1972. The club joined...
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Winnipeg Jets franchise, which played in the World Hockey Association (WHA) from 1972 to 1979 and the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1979 to 1996....
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The Winnipeg Jets are a professional ice hockey team based in Winnipeg. The Jets compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Central...
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least one game for the Winnipeg Jets of the National Hockey League (NHL) (1979–1996). For a list of players who played for the Jets in the World Hockey Association...
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were drafted in the National Hockey League Entry Draft by the Winnipeg Jets (1972–1996). It includes every player who was drafted, regardless of whether...
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The Winnipeg Jets were an ice hockey team who played in both the National Hockey League (NHL) and the World Hockey Association (WHA). This is a list of...
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Association (WHA), and were named the Winnipeg Jets. The WHA then merged with the NHL in 1979, the Jets relocated to Phoenix in 1996, and were renamed the Phoenix...
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Rick Bowness (category Winnipeg Jets (1972–1996) coaches)
assistant coach with the Winnipeg Jets. Bowness became the first head coach of the Winnipeg Jets' new AHL affiliate, the Sherbrooke Jets, in the 1982–83 AHL...
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Keith Tkachuk (category Winnipeg Jets (1972–1996) captains)
1972) is an American former professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) in a 18-year career with the Winnipeg Jets,...
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Bobby Hull (redirect from Golden Jet)
responded to overtures from the upstart World Hockey Association's Winnipeg Jets in 1972 by jesting that he would jump to them for a million dollars, a sum...
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List of NHL mascots (section Winnipeg Jets (1972–1996))
mascot of the original Winnipeg Jets from 1986 to 1996. He was named in honor of both Ben Hatskin, the first owner of the Jets, and Elton John's hit song...
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Randy Carlyle (category Winnipeg Jets (1972–1996) captains)
Penguins rebuilding, on March 5, Carlyle was traded to the Winnipeg Jets in exchange for the Jets' first-round draft pick in the 1984 NHL Entry Draft (which...
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The 1972–73 Winnipeg Jets season was their first season in the World Hockey Association (WHA). The Jets' first player signed was Norm Beaudin ("the Original...
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Dale Hawerchuk (category Winnipeg Jets (1972–1996) captains)
by the Winnipeg Jets in the 1981 NHL Entry Draft, Hawerchuk played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for 16 seasons as a member of the Jets, Buffalo...
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Arizona Coyotes (redirect from Arizona Coyotes (1996–2024))
The team began play as the Winnipeg Jets, one of the founding franchises in the World Hockey Association (WHA). The Jets were the most successful team...
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The NHL returned to Winnipeg following the 2010–11 season, when the Atlanta Thrashers became the "new" Winnipeg Jets. The Jets managed to qualify for...
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Dave Christian (category Winnipeg Jets (1972–1996) captains)
career started one week after the Miracle on Ice when he joined the Winnipeg Jets, who drafted him 40th overall in the 1979 NHL Entry Draft. Christian...
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Thomas Steen (category Winnipeg Jets (1972–1996) captains)
time in the NHL, he spent the entirety of his career with the original Winnipeg Jets. Steen was born in Grums, Sweden, and began his career with Grums IK...
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Tom Watt (ice hockey) (category Winnipeg Jets (1972–1996) coaches)
experience came with the Winnipeg Jets, whom he guided for two-plus seasons (1981 to 1984). In 1981–82, Watt helped the Jets to a 48-point improvement...
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John Ferguson Sr. (category Winnipeg Jets (1972–1996) coaches)
Nilsson away from the Winnipeg Jets of the World Hockey Association (WHA) in 1978 to the Rangers. Both were considered to be the Jets' best players, and...
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Dean Kennedy (category Winnipeg Jets (1972–1996) captains)
to 1995 for the Los Angeles Kings, New York Rangers, Buffalo Sabres, Winnipeg Jets and Edmonton Oilers. Biographical information and career statistics...
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Calgary Flames, the St. Louis Blues, and the Winnipeg Jets (the latter honouring the players of the original Jets) employ this designation. Wayne Gretzky's...
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The 1979–80 Winnipeg Jets season was the organization's eighth season since its inception in 1972, and its first season in the National Hockey League...
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1973. Winnipeg Jets (1972–96), a professional team in the World Hockey Association and National Hockey League that used the name from 1972 to 1996, and...
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1979 NHL expansion (category Winnipeg Jets (1972–1996))
In doing so, the Coyotes implicitly recognized the Winnipeg Jets' entire history from 1972 to 1996 as their own. The Coyotes later temporarily un-retired...
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Troy Murray (category Winnipeg Jets (1972–1996) captains)
forward in the league that year. In 1991-92, Murray was traded to the Winnipeg Jets along with teammate Warren Rychel for Bryan Marchment and Chris Norton...
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data from the previous incarnation of the franchise, the original Winnipeg Jets (1972–1996). The Arizona Coyotes have not won any of the team trophies the...
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The 1980–81 Winnipeg Jets season was the Winnipeg Jets' second season in the National Hockey League. In the 1980–81 season they finished fifth (and last)...
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Ben Hatskin (category Winnipeg Jets (1972–1996) executives)
a Canadian businessman and the founder of the Winnipeg Jets. Ben Hatskin was born in 1917 in Winnipeg to Russian-Jewish parents. As a standout football...
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Dan Maloney (category Winnipeg Jets (1972–1996) coaches)
with the Leafs, then coached three more years as head coach of the Winnipeg Jets. Maloney is known as having had one of the hardest right-hand punches...
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